From: Adam 

Rich wrote:

>    Do you have a device driver for your bluetooth adapter installed?

Yup. Device manager shows Bluetooth by hp up & running. I have a button
oon the laptop which turns bluetooth on & off & the first time I
turned it on, it fired up the new h/w found, I shoved in the cd etc. &
it's there & functioning (according to Device Manager).

> Without it you won't see any bluetooth UI.  I would suggest looking in
> the device manager to see if you have a bluetooth device listed or an
> unknown device because there is no driver.
>

I have it in dm. If I try running the bthprops.cpl directly, simply nothing happens.

Adam

> Rich
>
>
>     "Adam"      > wrote in message
>     news:428b4358{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Adam wrote:
>
>      > Dear All,
>      >
>      > Just had the laptop reimiaged to SP2. Before I had a hp thingy for
>      > connecting with bluetooth (e.g. to my phone. Now apparantly I should
>      > have a thing called "Bluetooth devices" in my control panel.
>      >
>      > Given there is no such object....
>      >
>      > A) Would it have been removed specifically (I am a local admin &
>     have
>      > the xp cd.....) & if so how/where do I install it.
>      >
>      > B) Could it be installed & then kept hidden as the devices view
>     shows my
>      > "Bluetooth by hp" device is working fine.
>      >
>      > Any thoughts?
>      >
>      > Adam
>     Hummm I have found my bthprops.cpl in my ssystem32 but "open with
>     control panel" (or indeed via run does absolutely nothing....I have
>     execute perms......so...
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>     Adam

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